Fascinating! You could subscribe to the Boston Globe to read "The Word" written by this author, or you could read her blog. I'm thinking: open source, free media, etc.
Jan Freeman has written The Word, a weekly Boston Globe column
Social reading -- sounds exciting. I've been thinking how cool it would be to have a class group textbook online. SO like you go online to yoru textbook for your class and you can see what other classmates have highlighted and commented on and tagged and add your own thoughts to the discussion. They can link to their blog posts about a subject in teh book that they did expanded self-directed learning on or just that they thought about more, etc. Sounds SUPER cool, huh? (ok ok, I'll blog about it)
scientists unraveled the structure of the atom, revealing the electron and
proton.
in 1938 fission of uranium atoms by neutrons was carried out in
Germany. The energy associated with fission opened the possibility for
powerful weapons and also the production of energy for civilian use.
The United Nations attempted to develop a policy for control of nuclear weapons,
but the United States and the Soviet Union could not agree. This was but one
component of the emerging Cold War between the two nations. Citizens of all
nations saw the power of nuclear fission as massive threat as well as a source
of useful energy for mankind.
In 1963 the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty became the first agreement to
control nuclear weapons.
The accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States (1979) and Chernobyl, in
the Ukraine (1986) had adverse effects on the use of nuclear reactors for
producing power